ITV has announced the commission of Marcella, a new original, multi-stranded crime drama.

Written by Swedish novelist Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of The Bridge, the eight-part series is set in contemporary London and described as “Scandinavian noir on the streets of Britain”.

Marcella follows a single female detective working on a serial murder case and will “lead the audience through a narrative maze until the final moments”.

ITV’s Director of Drama Steve November commented: “Hans has created a compelling central character driven by rejection and intuition who is at crisis point in her personal life. The narrative is so unpredictable with suspicion falling on nearly all of the characters. We’re very much looking forward to the ITV audience’s reaction to Marcella.”

The official synopsis reads: “Returning to the Met’s Murder Squad after a 12-year career break, Marcella is a detective in her late 30’s who gave up her fast-tracked role to marry and devote her life to starting a family. With the abrupt end to her marriage to the love of her life Jason and isolated from her daughter at boarding school, Marcella returns to work whilst attempting to make sense of what’s happened in her life.

“By coincidence a spate of recent killings have occurred which bear the hallmarks of unsolved murders committed over a decade ago. Marcella is immediately assigned to the case she first worked on in 2003. The killer was never detected and more bodies have been discovered with the same method of killing. Has the killer re-appeared or is a copycat murderer responsible for these recent deaths? How will Marcella cope returning to duties when her own temperament is so fragile and vulnerable? Will throwing herself into her work provide the answers she’s seeking? Or lead her dangerously into territory she must evade at all cost?”

Marcella will begin filming in London this autumn.

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